YAWN
I can’t think of any other way to describe this. I mean, I can see doting parents being thrilled by the first time their kid opens a door but I thought Obama was supposed to be a grown man? Am I wrong?
I can’t bring the images over because Time is so hurting for money, I’d likely get sued for copyright infringement so you’ll just have to follow the link. I didn’t get far into the collection before I was thinking of a nap. Sleeping while balancing a chair with his feet up on a desk, moving a chair, and that sort of thing is why married people with children usually run out of single friends shortly after the first year of the child’s life. Only other doting parents can understand the fixation on every little thing the child does.
Considering that this is the 13th time in 12 months that Obama has graced the cover of Time, perhaps they do look at him the same way doting parents look at their progeny. One wonders how close to rock bottom Time has to hit before they realize that not everyone in the U.S. doesn’t share their fascination.
April 24th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Yeah. I doted on all my kids…..never made the cover of TIME even once.
April 25th, 2009 at 4:26 am
Mine, either.
Oh, about that tax cut, I remember hearing yesterday that people won’t be getting it after. But we’ll still get cap and trade, gas taxes, and any other tax they can find to throw at us. We should be happy. It is, after all our patriotic duty to prop up failing businesses who are just going to take the money and layoff people anyway.
April 25th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Our governer is trying to raise the state gasoline tax by 6 cents a gallon. The legislature keeps voting it down.
It has become a circle of legislate, veto, legistlate….
and since this is Idaho, they are ALL republicans, can’t blame Obama or the 3 dems in this state.
April 25th, 2009 at 11:29 am
BB, I”m ready to open up a can of whoop-*** on both parties.
Besides, how many times do I have to say that conservative and Republican are not synonymous?
April 27th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
” conservative and Republican are not synonymous?”
..maybe not in Tennessee. I’m talking Idaho..
But, I undersand your point..us lib types are not synomomous with Commies or Fascists. I know, I know…but we really aren’t….
April 27th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
I understand that better than you think. My best friend here is a registered Democrat but she’s not going to be voting Democrat as long as the Commies and Fascists are in charge. Besides, she darn near as conservative as I am.
April 27th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Now you have hurt my feelings.
April 27th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Oh, I doubt that BB. You like to play Devil’s advocate but I don’t think you’re as on board with what’s going on in D.C. as much as you pretend to be.
You might think some of it is okay, but, it is only 100 days after all.
The federal government is hell bent on ushering in some kind of utopia. Conservatives are standing in the way of that utopia and there are a lot of us. Every dictator in history had the same idea and it always devolved into mass murder of dissidents.
You’re old enough to understand that. I can’t see you following the Democrats in Washington to that end, even if you’re personally willing to give up every freedom you have as long as the government keeps taking care of you.
The official count for the tea parties nationwide was 832,000+. The media coverage was nonexistent to downright insulting. People are angry and getting angrier. Obama may be in permanent campaign mode but it has gotten to the point of fatigue.
April 27th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
HB, I patiently watched while we spent our taxes on
ill-adivised war, the poor got poorer, the rich got richer, wages stagnated, gov’t gave tax breaks to big business and healthcare increased 285%. I didn’t do tea parties, because I knew I could vote them out. And I did. So, cheer up….you can too!
April 27th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
BB, I understand that. Bush wasn’t all that on the home front, but he did keep us safe. The Democrats are hellbent on undoing everything Bush did except for continuing to grow the government. I can’t say it was an ill-advised war, except now somebody is going to undo the gain from it.
The world is a dangerous place, even in your own back yard. There are more deaths here in the states in a month’s time than the entire WOT combined.
Healthcare increased directly due to Congress’ actions from legislation for medicare and SChip when they put caps on everything. What do you think the medical field is going to do at that point? They’re going to charge the cap and forget about anything else. And who gets the benefits? Only those who can afford it or get it for free. I’m not one of those lucky ones. And guess what? That affects the insurance companies, too, because they now have to pay the higher prices and that’s reflected in the higher cost of medical insurance. It’s a vicious circle because as bad as things might be otherwise, government intervention always seems to make things worse.
What’s the difference in tax breaks and bailouts? So they raise the tax rate on businesses. The businesses fail, the government bails them out with our money and then nationalizes them… then they pay no taxes. And do you really think, in spite of the talking heads calling it taxpayer money, that we’ll ever see a penny back from all this? The government will spend it as the government sees fit, not how “we the people” see fit.
Until shortly after 2006, most everybody in the states went about their days as if nothing was different from before 9/11/01. They got up, went to work, and did their normal things as if it was any other day in their lives.
April 28th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
“I can’t say it was an ill-advised war, ” Well, I can.
Having been in military WMD, I was very sceptical of the ‘evidence’ and wrote my congressman to please not waste US men and money on a tinhorn dictator.
Since he didn’t take my advice…it was ‘ill-advised”
April 28th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
BB, WMD was only one reason. There were others.
http://www.reasons-for-war-with-iraq.info/
Now we can argue all day and a year about “Bush lied, people died” but it won’t get either of us very far.
In addition, the argument that Bush did (fill in the blank) is not justification for what’s going on now. I have said time and again that I don’t agree with everything Bush did and I sure can’t see that being used as an excuse for worse now. At some point, Obama has to take responsibility for his own actions and Congress will have to take responsibility, too… especially now they’re one step closer to a filibuster proof majority.
When you’re in the majority, saying it’s the other side’s fault doesn’t really wash.
April 28th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
“When you’re in the majority, saying it’s the other side’s fault doesn’t really wash.” So true…but one can say, if you are not with me you are against me! What frustrates me HB, is that the economy has not done well under the GOP..because IMO, they are more interested in BigBizz than LilGuy. Even in obscure
overseas places, the right has ruined the economy….and gets replaced. Of course, I only state my beliefs, not here to argue, after all, we are BORN conservative or liberal; that’s why the put those little Red or Blue hats on newborns. Hmmmm, or is it pink and blue?
April 28th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
BB, what’s the difference between uttering the words and what the Democrats are doing when they demand bipartisanship that means that it’s all their way or no way?
Actually, I don’t think it was BigBizz that put us here. I don’t think you realize that the Democrats are now the party of the rich. All those businesses being bailed out were heavy Obama donors. McCain got almost nothing in comparison.
Government has ruined the economy. Fannie and Freddie, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, CitiGroup… all Obama supporters along with the others. GM, Chrysler… UAW now owns them and they stole our money to make the purchase. The more government grows and the more they interfere with the free market, the worse things get. Now, we’ll get universal healthcare and the government will have the right to determine life or death by their word, not our own or God’s.
April 28th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I got private healthcare. $8500 a year. (and that is WITH medicare). My Dr. left, and no one will take me.
Private enterprize is determining my life or death, not the gov’t or God. Which is OK, why not have the rich get even more rich. It is just I hate paying $8500 a year for nothing. (That is 4x as much as I pay in taxes)
..one of the many reasons I cannot abide the GOP…
McCain got ‘little in comparison’ from the lil guys as well, $63 million compared to Obama’s $334 million. ‘Bailing out’ business is to keep people working, as they have put checks on the ridiculous bonuses that failed CEOs were giving themselves. (guess that is what my health insurance money goes for) I know there are those that disagreee, but most economists think the best way to
coldcock a deep recession is for the gov’t to spend money. The far right hated McCain and they don’t like RINOs…and they shot themselves in the foot.
I am in no mood to return to the ‘good old days’ of 15 hours a day in the coal mines @ $1.25 an hour..the
glory days of laissez faire private enterprise.
April 28th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Really? Who? The unemployment numbers are still climbing. My business is in the toilet and we’re living on less than half what we had a year ago. At least you have something. We have nothing, nada, zip. Everything medical comes out of our pockets on a seriously reduced income. Obama’s bailouts to big business won’t help us with one red cent. If something doesn’t change real soon, I’ll lose my house, too. But I’d rather that than give up my rights to the freedoms guaranteed me in the Constitution.
Keep people working… Only the people who are in Obama’s pockets now. Those are the only people working. We can go round and round on this but you’re retired now. You don’t have a whole lot to lose, either way, so I can see why you support him in that. You reap the benefits and those following you reap the costs. It’s a win-win situation for you.
You know what I think? I think you’ve given up on living. It’s easier to have someone else tell you what you can and can’t do from now til the day you die in body. You’re already dead in spirit if you think it’s okay to hang the millstone of your existence around the necks of everyone who follows after you.
There is no perfect world, or perfect country. There is no such thing as utopia, not on this earth. The best we can hope for is to live free of as many constraints as possible. You, on the other hand, will take the constraints as long as it provides you comforts. And if you live beyond the boon of those comforts… there will be an end to them at some point… well, you’ll gripe about that, too. Then what?
You rail against the GOP about what they did while ignoring the Democrats are doing the same thing and more. Do you really think the Democrats care about what the GOP did except for not being the ones in control of it? What did they do away with that they slammed Bush and the GOP for?
Growth of government? It’s still growing.
Warrantless wiretaps? Still going and expanded to monitor citizens, too, now.
Taxes? You think you got a tax break but at the end of the year you’re going to pay that back and more, plus taxes on everything they can get their greedy fingers on.
Jobs? I’ve already mentioned the unemployment numbers are still climbing.
I could name a whole lot more but you know what? If you think you’re so dumb and so helpless that you can’t manage your own life without an overarching government, you go right ahead and keep on supporting what’s going on now.
For me, there is something worth far more than all the money and creature comforts in the world and without it, I’d be nothing.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:06 am
No, I’m ‘not dead in spirit’. Just disagree with the conservative movement. In fact after 28 awful years of GOP in the last 40….I kinda feel reborn..
April 29th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Okay, I suppose I can buy that, but, you know, when words and actions don’t match, sooner or later, everybody is screwed.
Today marks Obama’s 100th day in office. The Democrats now have a filibuster proof majority. From here on out, they own everything that is done lock, stock, and barrel. Essentially, they’ve owned it since 2006 but they still made excuses. Excuses won’t hold after yesterday.
It’s all theirs… and yours.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Look what you did: defined me in terms of what you believe. We need to get beyond ‘the other side is stupid’, ‘they are led around by the nose’, ‘they are
commie, fascist, ism, ism ism’. My goodness, ya’d think there were two species of humans anymore.
Were I to simply insult the ‘other side’, I could note:
“There is no perfect world, or perfect country. There is no such thing as utopia, not on this earth.” that is
‘dead in spirit’! But, I agree…many of us are suffering hard times; the likes of which most of us have not seen. What makes me ponder is not so much the
$3 trillion we spend trying to reverse the situation, but the $trillion in personal home equity and $7trillion which disappeared from the stock market. Since business got us here, I cannot follow the logic that business can get us out. (and you should know by now, IMO there is a huge difference between business
and BigBiz…they are totally different.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:01 am
BB, I get called stupid all the time by the so-called oh-so-tolerant left. I’m a hillbilly so my IQ automatically is in the toilet. I’m a conservative and that warrants a few more points off the IQ already in the toilet. And I didn’t call you stupid. I said: If you think you are.
Everything, according to the people in power in Washington is too big to fail; big business, big politicians, Obama… literally everything. It’s okay to destroy the country as long as those don’t fail. Look to who is propping up who and you know where the money went. Obama and the Democrats are propping up unions over business. They have nationalized the financing industry. They’re set to put such onerous taxes on energy that it will soon be nationalized too. Control the money and the energy, you control the people. You’re willing to let that happen. I’m not.
I was against the bailouts from the get go including the one back in September. Businesses fail because they did business poorly. That’s life. When the government steps in to bail them out, they’re automatically shutting new and better businesses out.
Where did the money go, you ask? Look to the people profiting by this. The politicians, George Soros, Warren Buffet, and others. The hedge fund lawyers and the like. And they’re all robbing us blind while they promise nothing in return. We’ll never see a penny back from this. Your kids will never see a penny back nor will their kids’ kids.
This country produces nothing anymore. Entrepeneurialship has been limited to the services areas. Innovation and invention has gone overseas. We falling into the same rut as what we had with Nixon and Carter.
When you can’t afford to heat your home with electricity, oil, or natural gas while being told at the same time you can’t burn wood or coal, then what? You’re the one who thinks Obama and the Democrats are going to fix this, so tell me how they’re going to do that?
April 29th, 2009 at 8:25 am
“This country produces nothing anymore.” Amen.
Basically that IS the problem. It started way way back in the 60s and there are many causes and many blames. Out this way, our first clue was when logs were exported to the far east and came back as plywood…cheaper plywood than we could make. Now, you tell me: how can shipping raw logs across the ocean- then shipping plywood all the way back be cheaper than simply making it here? I figure there is plenty of blame: labor wanted more, CEOs wanted more, shareholders wanted more, EPA & OSHA drove up business costs…..and WE preferred cheap to American made. Now, how to fix THAT….I really don’t know. But we better. Personally, I have always tried to buy ‘made in America’. Now I have two dodges in the garage….and Chrysler is going down the tubes!
Not complaining though, after hearing your problems.
I hope things turn around soon and ya’ll can thrive.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Doesn’t matter. The politicians on either side is going to fix nothing and will make things worse. There is a point where we’ll hit rock bottom but when that point is reached, it’s going to be anarchy, not utopia.
I’m of the live and let live philosophy. I can forward my views and try to persuade people that there’s a better way but in the end, it’s their choice, not mine. But they’re not letting me live. Instead I’m being herded and forced into something I want no part of. The only way to achieve their utopia is to destroy people like me. Maybe not today or tomorrow or next year, but one day that will be their conclusion.
You don’t like the terms commie, fascist, socialists applied so what do you want to call it? Does it matter what it’s called when the results will be the same?
April 29th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
There is nothing wrong with ‘live and let live’. It is sort of like the Golden Rule. I guess politics has shortened the Rule a bit with ‘do unto others.’
April 29th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Matthew 18:21-35
April 30th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Good fit: Matthew was a tax collector before his was an apostle!
April 30th, 2009 at 11:21 am
The government is our servant and acts just like the servant in the parable.